How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–and Why You Should

Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by suslik on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:49PM (#38729939)

There a plenty of non-ad-driver services that allow hosting blogs for free. Github, cloudfare’s free tier, and many others - and you can certainly find a one-click vm deployment of a blogging platform for less then 5$. I believe this implies that saying that you must have ads to have free online services is a fallacy.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by insanitybit on Thursday December 21, 2023 @08:52PM (#38729956)

All of those businesses subsidize their sites because they're billion dollar companies. Is that better than just... using ads?

> I believe this implies that saying that you must have ads to have free online services is a fallacy.

I'm saying someone has to pay for it.

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Re:How to Turn Off Google's "Privacy Sandbox" Ad Tracking–an... by skydhash on Thursday December 21, 2023 @09:53PM (#38730398)

Hosting a static cheap is cheap. And even something powered by a CMS can be hosted on a cheap droplet. No one really expects you to share contents like video and music for free (and even that can be done cheaply if you’re only loking at a few TB of monthly bandwith). So yeah, someone should pay for it, but the internet itself isn’t free and everyone is paying for it.

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